There are different weapons, vehicles, clothing and other equipment that can be found in the game world. Alone or as a team of two or four, you fight against up to 100 other players. Before this, the upcoming reduction is already indicated by a marker on the minimap. This will direct the players to a random point on the map. A circular border becomes smaller at certain time intervals and causes damage to players if they are not yet within the safe area. The playable character can be freely designed beforehand. There he has to try to survive as long as possible. The player lands with a parachute from an airplane on a remote island. The principle is based on the Japanese film and manga Battle Royale. Various items of equipment such as weapons, rucksacks, helmets or bulletproof vests are located at defined points on the map, mostly in houses or covered regions. In the game world itself there are abandoned houses, streets, forests and villages. The play zone of the open world game world becomes smaller in certain time intervals and the player suffers damage if he is outside the defined area. Some new gameplay elements such as snow trails have also been added with the map. The cold climate is similar to the conditions in Scandinavia or Siberia. In December 2018, the snow-covered Vikendi map was installed.
In June 2018, the third Sanhok card was added, vegetation and place names give a Southeast Asian flair. Calendar pages on walls refer to the year 1963. The flora (especially Joshua Trees ) corresponds to the US-American-Mexican deserts, place names, graffiti and brandmarks are Spanish. The old map can still be played as "Erangel Classic" in custom matches.Īt the end of 2017, PUBG was supplemented by another card called Miramar. With version 4.0, the map was revised in mid-2019. The world covers a size of about 64 square kilometers. Russian graffiti and brand marks can be found on houses and objects. The oldest map is the remote and extensive island of Erangel with Eastern European geography, which is based on brutalism and the Soviet Union in the 1950s. These are mostly dystopian, fallow places. The name is consistently capitalized for marketing purposes because, according to Greene, "it just looks better". This is where the name "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" came from. He used the nickname "PlayerUnknown" in online games.
6.1 Most players online at the same time on the Steam platformīrendan Greene was offered by the South Korean development studio Bluehole to implement his ideas as a game designer for a new game in the Battle Royal genre.